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Reputation: 5315

Making the horizontal scrollbar of a scrolled panel to be permanently visible in wxPython

I am developing a GUI with wxPython v3.0 on windows 8 OS. I have a problem regarding the horizontal scroll bar on a particular scrolled panel. In my GUI there are 2 scrolled panels named as panel1 and panel2 added to one main scrolled panel named as mainPanel and this panel has a vertical scroll bar. When ever the vertical scroll bar of the mainPanel is moved all the panels (panel1 & panel2) move simultaneously, this is exactly what I desired. Also in panel1 there is a horizontal scroll bar only (The vertical scroll bar is disabled on panel1 using SetupScrolling(scroll_y=False)). The reason why I need a horizontal scroll bar on panel1 is because if the text inside increases the panel expands too so I gave it a scroll bar.

Problem:

This horizontal bar on panel1 is only visible when I scroll the vertical scroll bar (the scroll bar on extreme right side as shown in the image.) of the mainPanel to the bottom. Image

How can I make the horizontal scroll bar on panel1 to be visible every time? I don't want to first scroll the vertical scroll bar of the mainPanel to the bottom in order to access the horizontal scroll bar of panel1?

Code: Here is an example code for this problem. You can also download the python file from this link if you have any problems with identations.

  #!/usr/bin/env python

  import wx
  import wx.lib.scrolledpanel


  class GUI(wx.Frame):

    def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
    screenWidth = 800
    screenHeight = 450
    screenSize = (screenWidth, screenHeight)
    wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, id, title, size=screenSize)
    locationFont = wx.Font(15, wx.MODERN, wx.NORMAL, wx.BOLD)
    mainSizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
    panelsSizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
    sizer1 = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
    sizer2 = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
    mainPanel = wx.lib.scrolledpanel.ScrolledPanel(self, -1,style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER)
    mainPanel.SetupScrolling()
    panel1 = wx.lib.scrolledpanel.ScrolledPanel(mainPanel, -1, style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER)
    panel1.SetupScrolling(scroll_y=False)
    panel2 = wx.lib.scrolledpanel.ScrolledPanel(mainPanel, -1, style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER)
    panel1.SetBackgroundColour('#FFFFFF')
    panel2.SetBackgroundColour('#FFFFFF')
    panelsSizer.Add(panel1, 1, wx.EXPAND)
    panelsSizer.Add(panel2, 2, wx.EXPAND)
    mainPanel.SetSizer(panelsSizer)

    k = 0
    locations = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,110,110,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
    for i in range(1,20):
        locationPanels = 'locationPanel'+str(k)
        locationPanels = wx.Panel(panel1)
        label0 = str(k+1)+ '. '+'Panel-1   #############################'
        text0 = wx.StaticText(locationPanels, -1, label0)
        text0.SetFont(locationFont)
        text0.SetForegroundColour('#0101DF')
        sizer1.Add(locationPanels, 0, wx.ALL, 5)
        sizer1.Add(wx.StaticLine(panel1), 0, wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, 0)
        k += 1

    k = 0
    availability=[1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,110,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
    for i in range(1,20):
        sensorPanel ='sensorPanel' +str(k)
        sensorPanel = wx.Panel(panel2)
        label = str(k)+ '. Panel-2'
        text = wx.StaticText(sensorPanel, -1, label)
        text.SetForegroundColour('#0101DF')
        text.SetFont(locationFont)
        sizer2.Add(sensorPanel, 0, wx.ALL, 5)
        sizer2.Add(wx.StaticLine(panel2), 0, wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, 0)
        k += 1

    panel1.SetSizer(sizer1)
    panel2.SetSizer(sizer2)
    mainSizer.Add(mainPanel, 15, wx.EXPAND|wx.ALL)
    self.SetSizer(mainSizer)


if __name__=='__main__':
app = wx.App()
frame = GUI(parent=None, id=-1, title="Test")
frame.Show()
app.MainLoop()

Thank you for your time.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1631

Answers (1)

Yoriz
Yoriz

Reputation: 3625

When you call method SetupScrolling with no parameters both scroll bars will be active, if you dont want the y axis scroll bar showing use scroll_y = False.

panel21 = wx.lib.scrolledpanel.ScrolledPanel(mainPanel, -1, style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER)
panel21.SetupScrolling(scroll_y = False)

Upvotes: 1

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